NAM.1973-12-26-1
First field dressing, 1914-1918 (c); khaki drab cotton package; a paper label on the front is printed with instructions for use and the maker’s name, Burroughs, Wellcome and Co, London.
World War One (1914-1918)
Width: 116 mm Depth: 68 mm Text: 25 mm
Front label is printed; ‘THE TORTOISE / FIRST FIELD DRESSING / a portable emergency dressing ready for immediate / application to wounds / BURROUGHS, WELLCOME & CO / Manufacturing Chemists / Snow Hill Buildings, London, E.C.’. Back label printed; ‘TORTOISE / TRADE [tortoise] MARK / FIRST FIELD DRESSING / DIRECTIONS Open the packet by tearing the black thread from the centre / at the long stitch. Remove the outer envelope, tear open the second, and apply in the following order to the wound / 1st - the wool pad / 2nd - Square piece of gauze / 3rd - Waterproof Fasten lightly with bandage and pins. / If two wounds, put the pad on one and piece of gauze / on the other, and divide the waterproof.’.